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More than 100 volunteers will converge on neighborhoods in the Clinton Elementary School attendance zone Saturday to begin revitalization efforts as part of the Lancaster Pride Promise Neighborhood project.

A Lancaster man was hit and killed while riding a bicycle in Gastonia, N.C. last Wednesday evening.
Johney Westberry, 47, was struck by a Cadillac Escalade while riding north on U.S. 321 near Salem Road at about 7 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene, said Sgt. D. Litaker with the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Litaker said the driver did not see the man due to lack of lighting on the bicycle and dark clothing.
The driver stopped at the scene and authorities found no signs of impairment, Litaker said.

Lancaster County Council approved the new Unified Development Ordinance Monday night by a vote of 5-1. Councilman Jack Estridge cast the vote of opposition.
“Lancaster County has changed, and this is an effort to try to manage that growth,” said Councilman Larry McCullough. “I fully support the UDO and applaud all who worked long and hard on this.”

Nearly 30 members from the Lancaster, Leaf & Petal and Green Gardeners garden clubs joined together Tuesday morning to decorate the outside of the Historic Courthouse on Main Street. Each member brought a bag of greenery and the group worked to make garland, bows and wreaths.

HEATH SPRINGS – Heath Springs is getting a hospitality tax Jan. 1. The only question is how much it will be.
That decision is left up to town council. Unlike the local option sales tax, the hospitality tax does not require voter approval.
The amount could be 1 percent that goes to the county, 2 percent split with the county or 2 percent that the town keeps. But it’s going to be at least 1 percent.

Police Chief Harlean Carter will retire in less than two weeks, after 26 years at the Lancaster Police Department and six years in the top job.
Her retirement, effective Dec. 12, is for “purely personal reasons,” Carter said Tuesday. She said the decision was difficult, but it was time to "pursue other interests." She declined to elaborate.

Lancaster County school board member James M. Brooks has been charged with methamphetamine trafficking after a 3 a.m. traffic stop in Indian Land.
Brooks and Carol Jean Broom, 37, of Fort Mill, were arrested early Saturday by Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies on Doby’s Bridge Road. Brooks had a substance believed to be meth in his jacket pocket, according to a sheriff’s office press release.